On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 09:28:44AM -0700, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 12:07:09PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > -- >8 -- > > Subject: CodingGuidelines: drop arithmetic expansion advice to use "$x" > > > > The advice to use "$x" rather than "x" in arithmetric expansion was > > working around a dash bug fixed in 0.5.4. Even Debian oldstable has > > 0.5.7 these days. > > that would be oldoldstable, oldstable is actually in 0.5.8 ;) Oh, you're right. I forgot they're doing an extra layer these days. It will officially become obsolete in less than 2 months. :) -Peff
